The Creepiest Artifacts in Museums Around the World

Dried Hands

These dried hands help showcase the anatomy of the human hand. At the Mütter Museum, they are featured in the Grimm's Anatomy exhibit, which showcases the morbitity of fairy tales. 

Head Full of Teeth

This looks like it's something out of a nightmare, but it's actually what all children's skulls look like! The skull was chipped away to show the structure of adult teeth in a child's skull before they lose their baby teeth. It was donated sometime before 1941, but the donor is unknown... 

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The More You Know

  • There's a brain-eating amoeba that lives in lakes and rivers of the southern United States.
  • In the USA, one in every three murders never gets solved.
  • Doctors used the teeth of dead people to make dentures.
  • The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.